BEIJING, China (AVING) — <Visual News> Samsung Electronics presented its ‘dual stand-by phone(model:W629)’ during PT EXPOCOMM CHINA 2007. Since it can have two SIM cards (GSM and CDMA) at the same time, users can take the advantages of two different service providers simultaneously with just one device. It is designed for businessmen with sleek card phone design and leather case, 2.6-inch QVGA TFT LCD, 3M camera, Bluetooth headset, and some conversational languages (English, Chinese and Korean). It is scheduled to hit China market at the end of this year.
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Here comes yet another sweet Korean cellphone, this time made by Sky: the IM-S240K .
As usual, the design is very nice, and as usual, it is only for Korea… the specifications of this slide phone include a 2MPx camera, HSDPA 7.2MBps, multimedia player, DMB, E-dictionary… this little wonder will soon be put on sale at a price of 400000Won (~307Euros)… just to let you know.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ — MangoMOBILE, an Omnicom company and a leader in advanced mobile marketing solutions, announces the launch of an innovative, first-of-its-kind mobile marketing campaign to support the launch of the Nissan Rogue crossover vehicle.
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Today we’re integrating Yahoo! Answers content into our mobile search service, oneSearch, and launching it globally in 18+ countries.
We’re rolling this out today to Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam.
Yahoo! oneSearch and Yahoo! Answers both offer platforms for searching — oneSearch with instant results to your queries from your mobile phone and Answers with the content of 350 million answers from over 95 million users worldwide. We wanted to integrate these two methods of searching because we know that sometimes you need to tap people who are “in the know” when you’re trying to find a quick answer on the go.
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PRO TECHnology, the regional distributor of Golla, expects the combined functionality and fresh designs to earn Golla the high esteem of the discerning shoppers across the region.
The Christmas range presents a wide array of bags for portable electronics such as laptops, notebooks, mobile phones, MP3 players and digital cameras with lively colours and the familiar feel of the Christmas season incorporated in it.
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Few payment innovations have produced the stark schizophrenia that we are experiencing with mobile commerce. Normally somber business types are rubbing their hands together at the prospects of reaching consumers on a one-to-one basis, online, all the time, anywhere they happen to be. Meanwhile, typically apprehensive risk managers and security experts are wringing their hands at the potential for serious data incursions. Maybe risk managers know that, as often happens with payment innovations, the temptation is to get the new product into the marketplace as quickly as possible, then step up the security as needed to ward off attacks. One case in point could now be emerging among so-called smart phones, where the underlying programming is proving to be more vulnerable to hackers than some business types thought. Mobile commerce, however, raises the stakes for this risky self-indulgence because many observers are projecting that cell phones and PDAs will soon replace wallets and pocketbooks. Consumers, who almost never leave home without their mobile devices, are being prepared for the day when all the payment and loyalty information they need will be loaded on and/or accessed by the device. So a data incursion, should it happen, could be just as damaging as losing a wallet or pocketbook. Maybe more so, if the mobile device’s ability to authenticate the consumer is hacked.
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BEIJING, September 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today SINA, China’s leading online media company, announced that they have joined as a sponsor in Nokia’s ongoing mobile multiplayer games competition to support the global search for new game developer talent and bring a new breed of innovative, connected mobile games to the Chinese market. As a result of SINA joining the competition, Nokia announced that the deadline for accepting mobile game concepts based on the SNAP Mobile platform has been extended to September 24. Selected concepts based on SNAP Mobile will receive free development support and preparation for market deployment.
“SINA will provide the winners of the multiplayer competition with a fast track opportunity to distribute games in China. This competition encourages developers and publishers to raise the bar on mobile game innovation, and developers located anywhere in the world, can compete,” said Terry Tian, Network Business Dept Director, SINA. “We are keen to add more SNAP Mobile based games to our portfolio, and see this competition as a unique way to speed deployment of innovative games to market.”
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Market-leading phone maker Nokia on Sept. 17 moved to bolster its mobile advertising front by agreeing to acquire Enpocket for an undisclosed sum.
Boston-based Enpocket makes a mobile advertising campaign management and delivery system that uses analytics technologies to draw a bead on consumer interests and deliver mobile advertising via SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) and video.
Nokia, based in Espoo, Finland, said in a statement that it plans to leverage Enpocket’s mobile ad platform along with its partnerships with advertisers, publishers and operators, including Vodafone, Telefonica and Pepsi.
The multi-billion-dollar potential of putting ads in front of consumers via their smartphones and other Web-enabled gadgets has made locking down mobile ad technologies a key focus for phone makers, content providers and search specialists.
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The long-term cancer risk of mobile phone use cannot be ruled out, experts have concluded.
A major six-year research programme found a “hint” of a higher cancer risk.
But the UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHRP) did rule out short-term adverse effects to brain and cell function.
Researchers are now expanding the programme to look at phone use over 10 years, and the specific impact on children, which has not been studied.
The MTHRP programme, funded by the government and communications industry, has carried out 23 separate studies into the health impact of mobile phones, masts and base stations.
Programme chairman Professor Lawrie Challis said it was now up to the government to offer advice.
The team found that there was a slight excess reporting of brain and acoustic neuroma (ear) cancers.
Researchers said this was on the borderline of statistical significance.
Professor Challis said that it was only responsible to do more research, citing the way smoking was not linked to lung cancer at first.
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Google Inc. has filed a patent that would allow users to pay for goods from vending machines and retailers — as well as make larger payments — via text message, or SMS (short message service) technology.
U.S. Patent 2007/0203836, called “Text message payment,” was published last Thursday by Google engineer Ramy Dodin. The invention, dubbed Gpay in the supporting drawings, is described as “a computer-implemented method of effectuating a payment, comprising: receiving at a computer server system a text message from a payor containing a payment request comprising a payment amount sent by a payor device operating independently of the computer server system; debiting a payor account for an amount corresponding to the amount of the payment request; and crediting a payee account that is independent of the computer server system.”
According to the drawings, users could use Gpay to make payments to various retailers, doctors or even their landscapers.
However, there are several companies, including two in the Philippines, that already offer such a service. Globe Telecom offers Globe GCash, a system that “enables any Globe or TM subscriber to send and receive money and make payments just through text/SMS.” And Smart Communications Inc. offers Smartpadala, a cash remittance service via text.
It is unclear whether these two companies have filed patents for their technology in the U.S.
Google officials could not be reached for comment.
